Wordology App Reviews

Well crafted and addictive game. Needs only a little polishing : - cannot register scores over 1 billion, - the personal scores are reset after awhile without asking permission, - the submit button is too close from the iPhone/iPod main.

Great graphics and gameplay!

There are a bunch of word games out there, but this is my favourite so far. Its a solid game, but its the polish and the little things that make it stand out. I know Ive been playing too much Xbox when Im excited by an achievement popup, but oh well.

I downloaded the light version of this game because a friend recommended it. Im not much for word games, but this one is the exception. I quickly found it was fun to play and had to get the full version. Its great for subway rides and you can easily pause if you need to do other things for a while. Whether you love word game apps, or they usually frustrate you like they did me, this is a great game that I definitely recommend.

This is my new favorite word game!! Nice fast pace but easy to pause and come back to. Great way to keep your mind in shape, great graphics and great fun!

I think the gameplay is pretty clear from the thorough description (think WordJong without the Mahjong style limitations), so I just want to list a few unique pros and cons for feedback. Pros: -Fantastic theme. Beautiful and clean. One of the reasons I took the leap and downloaded this one. -Sounds. There’s no music, but subtle, appropriate sound effects have not been neglected. -Thorough tutorial. -Game modes. It’s great to see an untimed mode (in addition to three different timed modes). -Special tiles (helpful & harmful). -Intuitive “deselect” method. -Different score values for different letters. Concerns: -What happens when there are no vowels left on the board? I’ve run into this issue a couple of times already (while playing in freestyle mode). I understand if it’s a part of the strategy to not end up in this situation, but the consequences need to be more clear when it does happen. When it happened to me, I had to randomly try all-consonant combinations until I used up all my “lives.” Is there a prompt when no further words can be made? -During some times when I’ve run out of vowels, I managed to continue by using the “words” *ST* and *PH*. Does this mean that abbreviations are accepted? I’m not sure what words these are otherwise. Despite my “concerns,” I would still recommend Wordology to fans of word games (no matter how many you currently have!). I would like to see these concerns addressed quickly because it can be frustrating to end up staring at an unusable board with no idea what to do next (I’ll be back to add another star and amend my review once this gets sorted out). This is otherwise an enjoyable and remarkably complete game (graphics, sounds, modes, score tracking). These developers did a great job implementing their idea. I can’t get over how eye-catching the interface is.

I own many word games on my phone. And Ive been playing and enjoying this game more than others, even more than Scrabble and Wordjong. The game play is nicely designed with a clean interface. And the graphics are elegant and tasteful, cleverly avoiding cheesy and distracting graphic effects. But the developer should improve this game further with continuous updates. Please add more varieties in the types of backgrounds and the coffe mug submit button: its kinda boring just to play in one graphic setting all the time! And add more types of special tiles.

Im a sucker for games like these where you build words out of random letters so I decided to give it a shot. However, I found a few things frustrating. 1) The time-counter is way too small so you have to devote equal time to looking for letters while keeping your attention on the small font used for the counter. Another thing about the counter is that when youve only got a handful of seconds left, it never warns you so you may think you have more time than you really do -- which leads you to lose a life. Solution: Increase the size of the counter and change the counter font color to red along with a warning sound at 10 seconds (maybe even a quick pulse of the seconds) to notify the player. 2) With the sound off, its almost impossible to tell if youve hit the right letter without looking up at the top. But while youre timed, youre more worried about getting all the letters spelled out than devoting energy to looking up at the word. Solution: When a tile is tapped (upon touch), the file should fade a bit to notify the player that the tile is actually active. 3) "Backspacing" is eternally frustrating. You have to hit the same letter you used before to backspace? With limited time, its extremely difficult to pinpoint the letter you used 3 letters ago in a random grid of tiles. For example, if I spelled the word, "mustard," and I wanted to delete the letters "a, r, d" to form "must," Id have to go and find each one in the grid. This takes even more time to find the right tile when all I want to do is backspace. And no, erasing the whole word just to spell a word Ive already partially spelled is NOT a solution. Solution: Add a backspace button! 4) Peek. Peek is useful, I suppose... but I havent ever really used it. Why not? It just seems like it would be useful if only I had more time to think about how to utilize it in a clever way. But with only 30 seconds for each "life," it seems like Id be better off just spelling random words on whatever tiles I can see already. Solution: Either increase the allotted time or allow more peeks per round. 5) The "reset to clear" sound is kind of annoying.. this may be a personal thing but it just seems like its distracting. It sounds a bit bizarre like a laser gun reloading.. out of place in a game/atmosphere like this. Solution: Different sound, please. Honestly, I dont know how any of these things were missed by the developer, seems like common sense to me after a few trial runs of the game. The game really is good for a word game so I give it 3 stars but these flaws seem kind of obvious to me.

Very nice game thats well polished. The 30 second timer is perfect for this game and can add to it with words entered and it gives the game feel of being fun and not hectic. One gripe is that your left hanging when words cant be made any longer. Be nice for a *games over* popup. Overall a very well made game that is worth the price. I tried the lite version to convince me to buy. Recommend getting this game. Nice work/game Cerebral Gardens!

I like this alot.

Beautiful app, addicting, great fun! ... buy it!

Where to start? First it accepts some proper names and refuses others. Also when you have no words left to spell you cant end the game you have to use all your turns by trying to spell words you know are not there. You have to either do that or quit the game and start anew Ugh! And it accepts some name of places and refuses others. Its okay but not for $2. Stick to Scrabble.

The pacing is JUST right (and can be adjusted)... you have more than enough time to put together complex words and as you get near the bottom of the pile then its time for some strategic thinking. Should you go for a big points word that will leave an extra tile or two? Or should you do two or three smaller words to finish it off completely and grab the bonus? A lot like WordPop! in this respect. Graphics and sounds are top notch and the achievements you win are great. I have em all (Wurdle, Lexic, Wordsworth, Smashword, etc) and this is easily up there with ANY of the top word games. Grab it as you wont be disappointed... a very satisfying word game ;-)

Fun game, but if you run out of words to spell before the end of your level, youre screwed. You have to go through the tedious process of killing each of your "lives" just to end the game (and keep your score). Next version will hopefully fix this!

But, as others have mentioned, you run out of vowels or consonants a lot, which forces you to start a new game when you have many lives left. Of course, this is not the fault of the player... How about making a shake to scramble the tiles when you get stuck or simply restack the level. The game should be smart enough to know when the board is loaded with all consonants or vowels. Ive also found legit words that were not accepted, like Rome, as well as some others, including names. Fix these issues and Ill give the game five stars!

Game over too easily. Good game if not for that. Its annoying to constantly have to start a new game.

I like this game a lot in lite version. But it was frustrating only having two levels. So I splurged for the " full" version but THAT only has eight levels. What kind if paid app only gives you 8 levels??!! Major let down.

Just bought this game. Could be a lot of fun except when you cant find a word it just leaves you there. I noticed others have said the same. How come it hasnt been fixed. Gamma

Could you please add more levels? I dont mind paying. Only 8 levels goes too fast. Thank u

First off, I wish some people would try a few different things before complaining on here. I see complaints for items that do what that the person wants in the game, they are just doing it wrong or not paying attention. Read the how to play section, there are little tips and info that is helpful. The the time bar does turn red when time is running low, and it is plenty big on my phone screen, and easy to notice while attempting to create a word. To backspace you dont have to touch every letter in backwards order, just touch the first letter of the word or the letter you want to back up to if correcting something. Stop trying to make the game easier, shuffle or restacking the tiles makes it so you can almost always complete each level. The point is to carefully make words so you end up with letters you can create words with, this is one place the peek button comes in handy, you can look to see where a vowel is on the next level if you have all consonants or a consonant if you have too many vowels, also if you are making a long word and only missing one letter, you can peek to see if the letter is available on the next level and make a word accordingly to expose the wanted letter. I find the peek button very useful and I like the challenge this game presents, I dont want featured that make it easy to finish every level. That takes away the thinking ahead aspect. I am disappointed that I still had a limited number of levels, I figured by paying I could play until I died or at least like 20 levels. Also it is annoying when you have 20 lives and 4 tiles that dont make a word and you havent leveled up, you have to use up all the lives until you can end the game and save your score and start a new one. It would be nice if the game was aware that more words were not available and said the level is incomplete, no further valid word combinations can be made. I like that curse words/dirty words are allowed, not because i like making them, but when they could be the highest scoring word available, or the only word left, it is good the word is accepted, a lot of word games seem to not allow then or are not on word lists when unscrambling letter to make words. I havent noticed and proper nouns being accepted except in a case where the word can also just be a regular noun in another context. I havent found a word it didnt accept so far that I know is a real word. I expected better for the money because of the limited number of levels, this seems like it should be the $.99 version or the lite version, not $2 and if a newer paid version had the added levels I would probably pay a little more.